[ILUG] HackWatch: Judge Rules Against M$ In Antitrust Case

[John McCormac]

The judge in the Microsoft case has issued a ruling that Microsoft had a
monopoly on the OS market. The ruling looks very bad for M$ in that it
attained a monopoly, which is not illegal, but it sought to maintain
that monopoly by abusing its dominant position. One of the best quotes
in the 207 page ruling was: "Most harmful of all is the message that
Microsoft's actions have conveyed to every enterprise with the potential
to innovate in the computer industry. Through its conduct towards
Netscape, IBMm Compaq, Intel and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that
it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any
firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify
competition against one of Microsoft's core products." 

A rough outline of what happened was posted on HackWatch this morning.
I'll be updating it with more analysis
(http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/verdict.html ) later this afternoon.

http://www.hackwatch.com

Regards...jmcc
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